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Re: ICE "evacuating" the Broadview facility I am hearing from some folks that ICE made a similar claim about a facility in Portland (that it was winding down operations) that was basically a fake out, with normal operations resuming there before long, so we are going to have to be vigilant.
BREAKING: Gavin Newsom signs legislation to ban face coverings for federal agents.
ICE denies using excessive force in Broadview, Illinois. Never mind the videos…
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohammed. Mohammed is 25 years old and had recently completed his studies in mechanotronics engineering. He lost his home and work and is struggling to survive in tents with his three small children Zakaria, 4, Mohammed, 3 and Elias, 1.
as far as obituaries go, you'd be hard pressed to do better than this.
Every Saturday, I go to the library. Today, though, with my kids and spouse out of town, I tripped on psilocybin! Wow, I thought! Look at me! And then I went to the library.
The list of countries that are confirmed to be set to recognize the State of Palestine on Sunday and Monday, September 21st and 22nd. The United Kingdom France Canada (conditional, gradual) Australia Belgium (gradual) Portugal Luxembourg Malta Andorra San Marino
Just ruined my morning listening to this disgusting recording - but bravo to the leaker ❤️ gothamist.com/news/secret-...
Time Magazine article from Feb 13, 1939.
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Kamal. Kamal has helped so many people I know in Gaza but never asked for my help before. He had a few careers before this including a tailor and a solar power tech. He’s helping his siblings including Aliaa, 25, Yasmin, 15 and Mohammad, 12.
Close to 75 NYers including clergy & elected officials were arrested yesterday fighting back against ICE’s abuses inside 26 Fed Plaza & in our communities. ✊ Next Thursday we continue that drumbeat. Join us at 6pm at Foley Square to raise our voices in defense of our communities. Bring noisemakers!
This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem
My body hurts and will probably hurt way more tomorrow. But it’s a lot less pain than what our neighbors are enduring inside the Broadview ICE facility.
We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”
In other news, my family has accidentally become an Ursula K. Le Guin book club; I'm reading 4yo the Catwings series while my husband reads Earthsea with the 10yo.
Federal officers took 11 Democratic officials into custody inside a federal building in Lower Manhattan after the group demanded entry to Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding cells where migrants were being detained.
“Sally Rooney could be arrested as a terrorist supporter if she enters the UK” Like read that sentence over and over and reflect on the state of this country
DAILY MEMO: Rapid Responders Foil ICE Raid Again at The Same Car Wash Targeted a Third Time This Week @eltragon.bsky.social
I thought they hated gender-neutral bathroom
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.
Well damn…
It's not just that I find Democrats prostrating themselves to be gross. It makes them unsafe. Why should I, a Black queer woman, maintain any faith that these jamokes give a single shit about my material circumstances as they eulogize this horrible man. It sucks.
I don't feel any reason to support a party that behaves this way. Half mast for a white supremacist. Get THEE fuck out of here
Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat | Sally Rooney | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/18/sally-rooney-unable-to-collect-award-over-palestine-action-arrest-threat
Jumaane Williams and Brad Lander among 11 officials arrested protesting ICE today. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...
They couldn’t even join the battle of Being Funnier.
It's past time for the unions to get militant.
in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.
Awesome watching students meaningfully and collaboratively wrestle with the concept of genre in this sorting competition, which I fully attribute to Donalyn Miller/The Book Whisperer ❤️
if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
Just eight months in and practically every media conglomerate is welcoming a fascist dictatorship
Yup. Except we've seen it happen for years with teachers and professors against the genocide in Palestine 😫
Imagine firing qualified educators because they hated a white supremacist . Fucking unreal.
Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.
Took him long enough 🤬
it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
Not Maui 😭
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
"I don't care that he's dead." "He's not a hero." "He's a scumbag." "He shouldn't be celebrated." No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd. Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.
being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.
Got fired from my job for saying that Samantha on Bewitched didn’t really wiggle her nose, she was just kind of twitching her mouth back and forth.
"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds" The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
trying to talk about Harpers Ferry without talking about slavery is jokes like, slavery is the only reason why you know about Harpers Ferry. wouldn't be no Harpers Ferry National History Park _without_ that part of the nation's history, you revisionist shits
Me: life could not possibly get any more stressful right now Lice: hold my beer
Playing “protect trans kids” at QueerCore Fest yesterday. Nothing like a crowd screaming “WTF is wrong with you?!” Into the transphobic void
Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic. Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
Hey @deltaairways.bsky.social Firing employees to appease violent mobs isn’t justice—it’s capitulation. This is McCarthyism 2.0. By caving to terror and harassment, you embolden the mob to strike again. Reinstate your staff. Apologize. Stand up for free speech.
It’s my birthday so you’re legally obligated to help a family in Gaza today ❤️
1) Still thoroughly, utterly horrified by this white supremacist, christofascist law and 2) Majorly applauding these teachers for their bravery and integrity <3
On my (perhaps?) 9th birthday, my mom gave me a boombox and a Billboards Hits cassette; this song was on it and blew my little mind. Fire indeed!
I repeat: Floyd’s murder was state violence, and originally the police presented the killing as justified. Kirk’s killing was immediately declared a murder and his killer will face justice.
Bravo Nepal 🇳🇵
Nepal appoints its first female PM after historic week of deadly protests
From March, but I'm just learning of this! www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel
The bigger issue is whether we understand how they're gonna move regardless, using any opportunity they come across or manufacture, and organize accordingly.
Definitely gained insight and put words to my own thoughts and feelings about On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by reading a critique, an addition to the critique, and a response to the addition to the critique! Most useful and insightful by far was the latter, which I link to here.
Also important to keep in mind that we are able to get much higher numbers than they do when we are organised
“But lawyers and social workers say many of the non-Korean immigrants ensnared in the crackdown remain in legal limbo or are otherwise unaccounted for.” apnews.com/article/geor...
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Look I think valuing human life is a phenomenal, wonderful, fantastic idea and also that’s why everyone opposes the genocide in Palestine and the colonial violence in Haiti and Sudan and Congo right? Oh oh you didn’t mean those lives I see
If Tyler Robinson had shot up an elementary school classroom, a movie theater or a daycare, MAGA wouldn't even acknowledge it. Think about that.
Before and after it's revealed that the shooter is a white male right-winger:
🍎🙏 Gov. Josh Stein and the NC Department of Health and Human Services have worked to issue standing orders to make access to COVID-19 vaccines available to North Carolinians without a prescription. www.wral.com/news/local/c...
Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order Friday to authorize medical professionals to provide updated COVID-19 vaccines to nearly anyone who wants it in Illinois, despite an effort by federal officials to limit access to the life-saving shot. @wttw.bsky.social
I put an email out to the WSJ editorial staff asking when their apology/explanation will be forthcoming for putting lives at risk and spreading terror. I'm far from alone on this. HRC is demanding one as well. We cannot let them skate on this. They acted w/the caution of a St0rmFront message board.
Ice murdered Silverio Villegas-Gonzales as he was trying to flee www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pivoting from Civil War to Mental Health Awareness like the Spirit Halloween turning into a Spirit Christmas
lol love this @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I hate the argument that AI is being used in lots of jobs so students have to learn how to use it in school. AI is not that hard to use. Lots of jobs also use job-specific convoluted enterprise software and we don't teach them how to use those in school.
The NYT are gonna look at this and just say he lowered his face to half-mast for Charlie Kirk.
Wandered around The Twisted Spine (NYC's 1st horror bookstore) today and they have a queer section!!
sorry guys, civil war is off, alleged shooter's white so it's all prayers for his soul going forward
Must be nice to not have oligarchs on your Supreme Court.
“Political violence is wrong” “Oh, so you agree, Abolish ICE?” “…”
Good thread here
hi, cis folks! the WSJ endangered trans lives with false reporting yesterday. it’s still accepted as truth by many, regardless of it being false. the article’s still up with a little note. it needs full retraction. it's not even a phone call—it's email. you can do this. contact info below.🧵⬇️
He also said yesterday "We have the death penalty" and today said "Charlie stood for forgiveness". I wonder what changed. 🙄
Putting away all the "CIVIL WAR NOW" banners at the news station and bringing out the "Mental Health Crisis in America" banners with a heavy sigh
Used this activity that Vogelsinger generously shared (we're introducing genre!) and students loved it.
Bad Bunny Says He Didn’t Include U.S. in Tour Dates Due to Fear of ICE Raids
A 10-year-old boy name Victor who saved his friend by lying on top of him during the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School, has been released from hospital.
“I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
I keep hearing political violence is never acceptable. These people were pardoned and are now called patriots and heroes by the right and the sitting president. Seems like they think it’s acceptable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeum...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
I'm so sorry! Didn't realized it was a ny thing. So inequitable, especially throwing in picture day!
Ahahaha took one for the team
? There's no school!
Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
Hala has a really beautiful voice and should be pursuing her dreams not trying to survive a genocide- help her family if you can (and listen to her beautiful music)